New Exploration in the Proven Petroleum System of the Suriname Offshore Basin, Suriname

E020 New Exploration in the Proven Petroleum System of the Suriname offshore basin Suriname Summary 1 A proven petroleum system has been established in Suriname requiring long distance migration of approximately 200 km from the deep water offshore source basin to the onshore Tambaredjo Field (~1.1Bbo in-place) operated by Staatsolie. Restricted circulation during the Cenomanian-Turonian resulted in the deposition of the organic rich (3-20 % TOC) source rock in the Canje Formation present in exploratory and ODP wells. A recent review of the historical well and seismic files in conjunction with the reprocessing of a 1999 seismic data set and the